To those asking why this is priest only, I have some basic speculation:

1) The lil' critter is called a Mindbender, right? If there's anything the sha are all about, it's bending minds.
2) Priests are also a bit about interfering with the mind. Mind control, and their fear that affects the mind. A warlock has fear, too, but that's more about causing fright and terror rather than directly affecting the mind.

I think it's a good fit, although I could see an argument for a sha for warlocks, as well.

I was a bit dissapointed at the same time. The thing is:
I was thinking it's not from any Sha-Touched weapon, but from Empress one, and I was seriously inspecting to see some sha's or even insects from Boomkins or special Elementals|Elemental form from Ele Shammys.
However, I'm happy with blizzard giving us such a funny thing

I'm really fond of this.
Too bad though that two people in my raid always pass when we're killing Will - on purpose of course - just so they can present their 463 mace to the loot council when the mace from Empress drops.
So I guess I will be the last one to get this one although I was first to get the gem.

Lol really... People are actually going to use this as something to complain about.

I would laugh if I saw that any Lock quit because of not getting a mini-sha, I would just be happy to know they no longer played the same game as me. Mouthbreathers, mouthbreathers everywhere.

Look, its much simpler than it sounds even you fail to understand it. Its not about the mini-sha. Its about the fact that most Warlock players play the class cause of it being the dark class. Blizz has introduced the Sha as a new dark feature of the lore which surprisingly appears to be the deeper one so far along with the Old Gods. They tease the locks with a sha tier, but by putting the mini sha to priests, they indirectly elaborate that the sha theme is meant for the priest class. Therefore, a player that plays the game for something more than numbers and practical stuff, wants to play a dark caster and has chosen a warlock, feels heavily disappointed. Its like the Warlock uses all the superficial evil stuff that you see in mainstream movies, while the priest gets all the deeper and mysterious stuff, even spells that have to do with the Void, another supposed "Warlock-theme".

Look, its much simpler than it sounds even you fail to understand it. Its not about the mini-sha. Its about the fact that most Warlock players play the class cause of it being the dark class. Blizz has introduced the Sha as a new dark feature of the lore which surprisingly appears to be the deeper one so far along with the Old Gods. They tease the locks with a sha tier, but by putting the mini sha to priests, they indirectly elaborate that the sha theme is meant for the priest class. Therefore, a player that plays the game for something more than numbers and practical stuff, wants to play a dark caster and has chosen a warlock, feels heavily disappointed. Its like the Warlock uses all the superficial evil stuff that you see in mainstream movies, while the priest gets all the deeper and mysterious stuff, even spells that have to do with the Void, another supposed "Warlock-theme".

Well the shadow-priest ain't a daffodil tooting snuggle bunny either. Besides this is the priest forum not gonna get much love for that line of reasoning here locky-loo - All your sha are belonging to us.